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  1. intencity77
    According to Lovett Commercial's website, they are proposing a Joe V's Smartshop grocery store at the corner of Harrisburg @ Eastwood. Joe V's is a lower tiered concept operated/owned by HEB.
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    Please take your annoying political rants to another appropriate forum, this is an architectural forum!
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    After Globe, I believe it was a Mervyn's, then (after Mervyn's moved across Gessner into the former Lord & Taylor space) it became an Oshman's SuperSports in its final years.
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    This would be 1300 Main Street or Travis Tower. According to Emporis "The originial design of the building once had corporate signage for Conoco, including a "Weatherball" of colored light that would change to inform people of weather conditions."
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    I think she is referring to probably Eastern Downtown and parts of EaDo.
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    The immediate area has changed a little but I think the gentrification the flyer is referring to is most likely Eastwood and EaDo. I have my doubts about this getting built too, but I get a feeling the Joe V's probably will get done and a maybe a few of the random pad sites. The office space just seems too over ambitious to me.
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    Looks like Lovett Commercial has updated their plans for their Harrisburg Crossing development to include a Joe V's Smart Shop grocery store, Ross, more retail space, a 3 story office building, pad sites and a 4 story parking garage. http://www.lovettcommercial.com/pic/dwnFeatures.aspx?webid=117
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    They really chopped off that crown and to think that was one of the most striking things about the hotel, along with the Texas shaped pool area. It now looks shorter making the building as a whole appear less significant than the original rendering. Is it possible in this town to build something according to the initial rendering or does every project have to be scaled down in some fashion?
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    So who knew it took only ONE 50+ story tower in Midland to constitute it as "Oil Capital of America". And here we've been trying so hard in Houston constructing so many 50+ story towers over the years! While this building is beautiful and sleek, Midland has a lot more high rises to build and FILL for that matter, if they want to steal Houston's oil and energy capital moniker.
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    EaDo is a done deal. Has been for years, doubt it will change anytime soon.
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    But on the other hand, you also have to remember the many projects in Houston that initially had multiple phases which were later canceled. It's very common. Let's hope not with this project because that building really doesn't look so great all by itself.
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    I believe Target phased out the automotive garage area some time in the late 80's. I remember the former East Freeway location (now Burlington Coat Factory) doing this during its last remodel and expanding the store space into the former garage area.
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    I heard Crosspoint and Alamo Drafthouse couldn't make the "numbers work" so Alamo walked away from the project and is currently searching for an alternate site in Midtown. Meanwhile, Crosspoint is currently looking for a similar concept as replacement for the Alamo Drafthouse to anchor their Louisiana development.
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    I don't remember the mall but I can definitely confirm that it indeed did exist. According to a 1983 topographic map of Pasadena, the PISD Admin building is labeled as Strawberry Mall Shopping Center. It is located at Strawberry and Cherry Brook Lane and must have been built sometime in the late 60's/early 70's.
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    This just in from then mayors office. So is Macys being forced out by the property owner since it states a smaller Macys store wouldn't be feasible in the future redevelopment of the building? http://www.houstongovnewsroom.org/go/doc/2155/1671587/
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    "Well it's better than what is currently there" seems to be the same old typical excuse I keep hearing for every once grandeur development that turns into a medicore disappointment. Quantity is not quality and I wish some of these developers would have the cajones to seriously build and invest big in this town as they so often do in others. What are the developers and banks scared of? And don't tell me Houston's bust of the 80's. Surely, we are passed that and have proven our staying power during rough times.
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    Starbucks wanted a drive thru store in Midtown. Initially, they considered a drive thru only store but obviously that changed. The other Starbucks in the general vicinity do not have drive thru's.
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    I've heard that one of the tenants will be a large Starbucks with a drive thru/cafe. Opening will be in the first quarter of next year. I don't yet know what this means, if anything, for the cafe only Starbucks on Gray St, just four blocks north.
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    This is one bloated, bland looking skyscraper especially to be showcased front and center on our already very symmetrical existing skyline. All it has going for it is height, which is the one thing I really like about it!
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    Just For Feet?
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    I believe the old Wayside Target initially had a grocery component to it when it opened. I heard that later Weingartens took over the grocery sections. I guess Target was too ahead of its day back then! I think the former Sharpstown, Almeda and Hedwig Village locations also had grocery sections as well. Can anyone confirm this?
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    I don't know about you guys but I find it a bit outrageous that they are even thinking about doing this, even if the route would follow the N. MacGregor right of way. IMO, The recent improvements made to Brays Bayou would be a waste if this project becomes reality. Fortunately, there appears to be a lot of opposition to it. http://abclocal.go.c...ocal&id=8703131
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    It's so funny this topic showed up because I was thinking the same thing about the golf course a few weeks ago! Anyway, I could only come to the conclusion that the golf course is probably being set aside for some kind of future expansion of the zoo though I really do like the idea of a Botanical Garden. IMO, I think any redevelopment of the course will more than likely have a green function, whether it be a future zoo expansion, botanical gardens or a Discovery Green type park.
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    Umm, shouldn't this topic be under the "Katy and Points West" section?? This project is not really groundbreaking enough to be under the "Going Up" section. It looks like any standard suburban shopping center to me.
  25. intencity77
    According to Culturemap, looks like Inn at the Ballpark will be rebranded as Westin Houston Downtown on December 6, 2012. Westin already has the hotel listed on its website as well. http://houston.cultu...-hotel-shakeup/
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